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Recent Examples of lamina
The tissue in which the teeth were embedded, called the dental lamina, was similarly only recorded inside a vertebrate's jaw before the study, per CBC.
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Staff Author, PEOPLE, 10 Sep. 2025
The dental lamina has never been found outside of the mouth until now.
—Kate Wong, Scientific American, 5 Sep. 2025
Two of these organs — the vascular organ of lamina terminalis (OVLT) and the subfornical organ (SFO) — are sensory organs not unlike a nose or an ear.
—Dan Samorodnitsky, Quanta Magazine, 11 Aug. 2025
The back procedure was a laminotomy, which is a removal of a small portion of the lamina and ligaments, according to the Mayfield Clinic.
—Daniel Rapaport, SI.com, 5 Oct. 2017
A lamina is simply a very thin sedimentary bed (less than a couple centimeters thick).
—Brian Romans, WIRED, 22 Aug. 2008
Staff Author, PEOPLE, 10 Sep. 2025
The dental lamina has never been found outside of the mouth until now.
—Kate Wong, Scientific American, 5 Sep. 2025
Two of these organs — the vascular organ of lamina terminalis (OVLT) and the subfornical organ (SFO) — are sensory organs not unlike a nose or an ear.
—Dan Samorodnitsky, Quanta Magazine, 11 Aug. 2025
The back procedure was a laminotomy, which is a removal of a small portion of the lamina and ligaments, according to the Mayfield Clinic.
—Daniel Rapaport, SI.com, 5 Oct. 2017
A lamina is simply a very thin sedimentary bed (less than a couple centimeters thick).
—Brian Romans, WIRED, 22 Aug. 2008
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lamina
Noun
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The date written on the back of the plate reads October 25, 1996.—
Alyce Collins,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 Oct. 2025
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The plate will leave you feeling like you just got let in on a secret.—
Kaitlyn Yarborough,
Southern Living,
27 Oct. 2025
Noun
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That old story survived the reevaluation of war that took place during the Enlightenment; the transformation of the modern battlefield by mass mobilization and factory-scale killing in the twentieth century; and now, the separation between killer and target facilitated by technology.—
Elizabeth D. Samet,
Foreign Affairs,
29 Oct. 2025
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Bhattacharyya stresses that scale and speed will be critical if America hopes to secure its maritime and strategic advantage.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
28 Oct. 2025
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“Lamina.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lamina. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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